Kathleen Mikulis — a stay-at-home mom from Mountain View, California
Mike Wilson — a business student from Grand Blanc, Michigan
Matt DeTura — a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C. (whose 3-day cash winnings total $61,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $3,800 | $5,800 | $12,600 |
$12,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,600
20 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mike | $2,000 | $3,000 | $8,600 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,600
12 R, 0 W |
| Kathleen | $200 | $2,000 | $12,800 |
$25,201
New champion: $25,201 |
$11,200
13 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
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|
$200
[24]
February 7, 1986: ending a 28-year family dynasty, "president for life" Jean-Claude Duvalier flees this island nation
Haiti
Kathleen
|
$200
[15]
Broncos:51,475 yards(1983-1998)
(John) Elway
Matt
|
$200
[20]
This California city has the USA's oldest Columbus Day parade & an Italian Banquet at the Fairmont Hotel, too
San Francisco
Kathleen
|
$200
[2]
This knight's forbidden love for the queen caused him to fail in his holy grail quest & busted up the round table
Lancelot
Kathleen
|
$200
[10]
Bob Dylan wrote "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", but this "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" trio made it a top 10 hit
Peter, Paul and Mary
Mike
|
$200
[1]
One of the USA's most honored TV journalists, he was at CBS for more than 50 years
Walter Cronkite
Mike
|
|
$400
[28]
June 30, 2005: this late actor's annotated script of "The Godfather" sells at auction for a record $312,800
(Marlon) Brando
Matt
|
$400
[16]
49ers:35,124 yards(1979-1992)
(Joe) Montana
Mike
|
$400
[21]
Washington State has a yearly festival devoted to the Dungeness type of this
crab
Kathleen
|
$400
[6]
By late 32 B.C., he had divorced his wife Octavia for an Egyptian lady; ex-brother-in-law Octavian declared war on him
Mark Antony
Mike
|
$400
[26]
Proverbially, "once" this, "twice shy"
bitten
Matt
|
$400
[4]
This verb means to provoke or to stir up: uh oh, riot!
incite
Matt
|
|
$600
[13]
June 19, 1970: with the purchase of a Reno casino, this billionaire becomes the biggest gambling operator in Nevada
Howard Hughes
Mike
|
$600
[17]
Dolphins:34.86 miles(1983-1999)
(Dan) Marino
Mike
|
$600
[3]
Wash down your empanadas with Merlot at this Disney World theme park's international food & wine festival
Epcot Center
Matt
|
$600
[7]
This Hungarian & "Faust" composer was big with the ladies; Countess d'Agoult & George Sand were on his short this
Liszt
Matt
|
$600
[23]
In the title of a noirish 1934 James M. Cain novel, this guy "Always Rings Twice"
The Postman
Matt
|
$600
[5]
This pencil component is a form of soft carbon; you won't get lead poisoning from chewing on it
graphite
Mike
|
|
$1,000
[30]
July 27, 1953: 3 years & 32 days of war between these 2 countries ends with the signing of an armistice
North and South Korea
Kathleen
|
$800
[18]
Jets:270.57 football fields(1965-1976)
(Joe) Namath
Matt
|
$800
[12]
The 41st annual Ohio Sauerkraut Festival offers 'kraut-flavored this semisoft treat (chocolate is more traditional)
fudge
Kathleen
|
$800
[11]
In 1809 this Corsican divorced his 46-year-old wife; a few months later, he married a 19-yr.-old Austrian archduchess
Napoléon
Kathleen
|
$800
[25]
Multiply pi times twice the radius of a circle to get this measure
the circumference
Matt
|
$800
[8]
After a grappling arm in the shuttle cargo bay failed, Joseph Allen held one of these over his head for an entire orbit
a satellite
|
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
April 27, 2010: After 2 decades in U.S. prisons, this Central American ex-leader arrives in France to face charges
Manuel Noriega
Matt
|
$1,000
[19]
Cowboys:6.24 leagues(1989-2000)
(Troy) Aikman
Matt
|
$1,000
[22]
"Taste of" this southern city is an annual event & also the name of a gift basket with rice & Benne Wafers
Charleston
|
$1,000
[14]
A battleship in history & cinema was named for this prince, lover of Catherine the Great
Potemkin
Matt
|
$1,000
[27]
German term for sweet bread that's been "twice baked"
zwieback
|
$1,000
[9]
From the Latin for "instruction", it's an adjective meaning "very knowledgeable"
erudite
Matt
|
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|
$400
[5]
The Deccan Odyssey is a luxury tour of Maharashtra state by this mode of transport
a train
Mike
Kathleen
|
$400
[11]
(Christopher Meloni gives the clue.) You feel like you're in the ring with Jake LaMotta in this classic collaboration of Scorsese & De Niro
Raging Bull
Mike
|
$400
[6]
A hemodialyzer is a medical device known as an artificial this organ
a kidney
Matt
|
$400
[18]
A prize or memento, such as a cup or a plaque, received as a symbol of victory, often in sports
a trophy
Matt
|
$800
[17]
An arachnid
Scorpio
Matt
|
$1,600
[26]
This Dickens novel starts with a boy visiting his parents' graves, where he's surprised by an escaped convict
Great Expectations
Kathleen
|
|
$800
[4]
The eastern states of Orissa & Andhra Pradesh are bounded by this body of water
the Bay of Bengal
Kathleen
|
$800
[12]
(Soledad O'Brien gives the clue.) I never stop laughing at Spike Lee's concert film of Bernie Mac, Cedric the Entertainer, D.L. Hughley & Steve Harvey--"The Original" these
Kings of Comedy
Matt
|
$800
[7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) An egg sinks in tap water, but in saltwater, the egg gains this, defined as the upward force of a liquid on an object less dense than itself
buoyancy
Matt
|
$800
[19]
This term for an on-the-job trainee comes from the French for "to learn"
an apprentice
Matt
|
$1,200
[14]
Either monozygotic or dizygotic
Gemini
Kathleen
|
$2,000
[23]
Ruth Cole is the title character of John Irving's "A Widow for" this long
One Year
|
|
$1,600
[2]
Known as "DU", it has about 200,000 students
Delhi University
Kathleen
|
$1,200
[13]
(Wolf Blitzer gives the clue.) "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it" is some of the wisdom dispensed by the hooky player in this film
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Kathleen
|
$1,200
[8]
The second law of thermodynamics says that this will of its own accord only move to a colder object
heat
Matt
|
$1,200
[20]
A tableland, it's from the French for "flat object"
a plateau
Mike
|
$1,600
[15]
Usually carrying a sheaf of wheat
Virgo
|
— |
|
DD
$2,000
[1]
A group of vigilante women who beat up corrupt & abusive men calls itself the pink this garment gang
sari
Kathleen
|
$1,600
[25]
(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives the clue.) Humphrey Bogart plays a tough private eye who sends his love Mary Astor up the river in this 1941 film
The Maltese Falcon
Mike
|
$1,600
[9]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) When you press the nozzle of an aerosol can, the contents are pushed out by pressurized gas; the gas is called one of these, a general term for chemicals that create thrust
a propellant
Matt
|
$1,600
[21]
Eating pizza in the morning is etymologically justified: this meal is from the Old French for "morning meal"
dinner
|
DD
$2,800
[16]
The lucky possessor of 4 hooves & 2 arms
Sagittarius
Kathleen
|
— |
|
$2,000
[3]
Like in the book "Eat, Pray, Love", you may want to renew yourself spiritually at this type of Indian religious retreat
an ashram
Mike
|
$2,000
[24]
(Dana Delany gives the clue.) Humphrey Bogart plays a tough Hollywood writer who loses his last chance at love with Gloria Grahame in this 1950 film
In a Lonely Place
|
$2,000
[10]
This division separates Saturn's rings & is named for the man who spotted them in 1675
the Cassini division
|
$2,000
[22]
Spelled with an E after the L, it means "to complete"; with an I, "to praise"; both are from the French
complement or compliment
|
— | — |
They are the 2 artists associated with the 1888 work seen here; one is the artist & the other is the subject
Van Gogh & Gauguin